Wired South Korea to stem digital addiction from age 3

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In this Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 photo, Park Jung-in, an 11-year-old South Korean, shows her smartphone after a lecture about how to prevent smartphone addictions at Chilbo elementary school in Suwon, South Korea. Across the entire population, South Korea’s government estimated 2.55 million people are addicted to smartphones, using the devices for 8 hours a day or more, in its first survey of smartphone addiction released earlier this year. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)